I'm publishing the expanded Off the Grid book while it's being edited! You can learn more about it here. The eBook is under a #CreativeCommons license and DRM free! https://leanpub.com/otg @bookstodon #DRMFree #Books #Disability

THE OPPRESSION OF THE UYGHUR PEOPLE explored in heartbreaking detail through an exiled poet and filmmaker’s memoir. Beautiful writing about a horrifying topic brings stories of the imprisoned and murdered into the light. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-tahir-hamut-izgil/1142610549?ean=9780593491799

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The Great Escape

The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship.

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Poverty, by America

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?

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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg

Relevant today.

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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide.

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The devil and his entourage have certainly left the Soviet investigators in a tizzy!

(A quotation from The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, P&V translation)

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I was interviewed with @rachelcleves about our new #scifi #sff novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY (written jointly as @RASinn) in the new American University Magazine. Love the kicker. https://www.american.edu/magazine/article/biblio-file-a-second-chance-for-yesterday.cfm #bookstodon @bookstodon @sciencefiction

My next book is coming soon! Wherever you like to track your reading, I've got you covered:

Goodreads
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AllAuthor
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BingeBooks
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Alternatively, you can give me a follow on Amazon to stay up-to-date on my latest releases!

http://amazon.com/author/michaelshotter

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System Collapse by Martha Wells, the latest MurderBot book, is out today and it's great. Read my review: https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2023/11/system-collapse-by-martha-wells-review.html

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Other Minds

The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus.

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Somehow I missed this trend: When did trivial medical romance become trivial #librarian romance? #PulpFiction

Dieser Trend ist irgendwie an mir vorbeigegangen: Wann wurde aus dem trivialen Arztroman der triviale #Bibliothekar:in-Roman? #Trivialliteratur

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The Science of Sci-Fi Cinema
Essays on the Art and Principles of Ten Films

This volume of essays examines 10 films, with a focus on discerning the possible, the unlikely, and the purely science fictional. With essays by scientists in relevant fields, chapters provide analyses of the movies themselves, along with examination of the actual science (or lack thereof) in each film.

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NEAR-FUTURE NOIR THRILLER, set in a Pacific Northwest sodden with “broken weather,” combines lots of action and a colorful cast of characters for a highly entertaining read. B PLUS

https://splinterpress.com/product/the-dissection-and-reassembly-of-cohen-hoard/

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Do you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #Goodreads? #BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #BookWyrm instances and on #Mastodon. You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at https://ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

Libraries are one of the few public spaces where people are allowed to exist without money in our capitalist hellscape 🤔😇

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